For librarians

The new Administrator Module lets librarians manage some features of the eLibrary account. The Administrator Module is located at ams.elibrary.imf.org. Please contact customer service at publications@imf.org for your access credentials.

The Help page has the Startup Guide and the Custom Books Guide. Each guide has been translated into Arabic, French, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. At the bottom of the Help page you will find descriptions of IMF publications. A series of video tutorials, covering many of the important features of the eLibrary, is now available on a separate tab on the Help page.

Pricing policies: Current IMF policy allows free access for academic, non-profit, and government institutions in developing countries to IMF publications and databases, in order to provide more support for research. The Free Subscription Policy page has details and a list of eligible countries.

Corrections and revisions made after publication are incorporated into the electronic editions available on the IMF eLibrary. Visit the corrections page to access detailed log files for specific publications.

Do I need to download the complete file of MARC records every time, or is there a change/add/delete file? Both the complete file and a change/add/delete file are available.

How often do you update MARC records, and how will I know when there is an update? MARC records are updated monthly and noted in the news section. If you subscribe to the news RSS on the homepage, you will be notified automatically.

Do you provide usage reporting and how can I get it? You can get COUNTER compliant reports for text usage and Google Analytics reports for IMF Data. Now, you can run these reports at your convenience in the IMF Administrator Module. Please contact customer service for your administrator module credentials.

Download the full MARC records for eLibrary in four different formats. Below is an explanation of the formats. Scroll down for the links to the files.

File extension

Data format

Character set

.mrc

MARC-21

UTF-8

.mrk

MARC text

UTF-8

.mrk8

MARC text

Marc-8

.xml

MARC-21 XML

UTF-8

.xlsx

Excel

UTF-8

You can also download the records based on your subscription. If you prefer, you can download the current monthly update. The files have been zipped for faster download. Please right-click on the file and select save target as, in order to open the file into your software program.